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Your Weekly Clover Valley Newspaper June 27, 2013 ❖ www.CloverdaleReporter.com ❖ 604-575-2405
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Countdown to Canada Day Platinum Blonde, Sloan headline day of free music and family fun
By Jennifer Lang sports, Kids World, and Storyville – stoCloverdale is set to host one of Surrey’s ries, songs, games, and puppets – presented by Surrey Public Library. biggest parties of the year. Music fans will get their Country fix With headliners ‘80s Canadian rock legends Platinum Blonde, indie power from the sounds of Crystal Shawanda, a Juno award-winner, along with pop icons Sloan and a host of Surrey “Stomp” folksters Good local talent lined up to entertain for Grapes, Peak Performance the masses – along with a day Project winners Dear Rouge (feathat’s jam-packed with free famturing Drew and Danielle Mcily fun – the city’s July 1 bash is Taggert), and cover band Aerosonce again guaranteed to draw mith Rocks. tens of thousands to the CloverOther performers include Nordale Millennium Amphitheatre man Foote, rising talent Cole Arat 176 Street and 64 Avenue. mour, a 14-year-old who’s appeared There are also amusement on the Ellen DeGeneres Show, the rides, food concessions, and Surrey Celebration Dance Team, more, including a Canada Day Canadian pride and the Korean National Farmers Expo with more than 50 diverse Band and Tight Rope Walker. community and business exA new Honda Civic will also be raffled hibitors, from broadcast stations and the Royal Canadian Legion to the Honeybee off at the event, presented by the City of Surrey and various sponsors. Centre and Surrey Search and Rescue. Opening ceremonies with Surrey mayFireworks are at 10:15 p.m., with music or Dianne Watts and council are at 1:30 by DJ Jay Swing and Flipout, capping off 12 hours of entertainment in celebration p.m. Seniors are invited to join the mayor and council for the annual Strawberry of Canada’s 146th birthday. Other attractions include the Sports Tea, from noon to 3 p.m. next door at the Zone, where revelers can try out new See WALK / Page 3
Trustees cut own pay By Sheila Reynolds Surrey school trustees voted themselves a $200 per year pay decrease last week. The seven-member board will now receive an annual rate of $30,200 – down from the past year’s salary of $30,400. (The chair and vice-chair of the board of education get an extra $3,000 and $1,500, respectively).
Trustee pay is reviewed each year and is based on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for Vancouver. While the rate has increased steadily over the years, this year, it decreased 0.8 per cent. In accordance with district policy, it was recommended that the pay for Surrey trustees be reduced to reflect the CPI change.
“I believe that this is the correct thing to do,” said Trustee Charlene Dobie. Last year, trustees increased their pay by $560 per year, and the year before, $66 per year. Trustees in Coquitlam, where there are nine trustees, but fewer students and a smaller budget, are the highest paid in the Lower Mainland, with a base rate of $36,675.
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